Software engineering insights, technical write-ups, and documentation of past development projects.
Whilst perusing the bitchy rants on WP Tavern, I came across an excellent recommendation from Samuel Wood (aka Otto) for an alternativeto the Hello Dolly plugin. It’s called “Hello Samuel L Jackson” and it loads some excellent philosophical words shared by a great poet.
It is 10 years today since I released my first ever WordPress plugin. It’s been a blast, and I’ll probably release more in the future too. That first plugin was “Ryans Suckerfish WordPress Dropdown Menu”. It was in response to a blog post by Miriam Schwab on her blog the wordpressgarage.com (now wpgarage.com). She wrote […]
I recently needed to set the default number of products selected in WooCommerce to 1. I created a plugin to achieve this.
When someone asks me to setup 404 logging in WordPress, I go on the hunt for a simple plugin which just does logging of the 404 errors and nothing else.
I had a problem which involved editing bbPress post names. So I created a plugin to allow forum admins to easily change the author of any bbPress post.
I wrote a simple bash script which grabs all sites on a multisite network, then loops through and runs all the due WP Cron tasks for each individual site.
I’ve created a new WordPress plugin. This one is fairly basic, and simply used for adding an audio file uploader to your site. You can read about it more on it’s plugin page.
I find that sticky sidebars are awkward to implement. There are plenty of examples out there, but I find most have problems.
Using DISALLOW_FILE_MODS disables WordPress update notices. Jay Dansand of Lawrence University has solved this via an elegant little plugin.
I am the hipster of helmet cams, but now I have “cap cam” 🙂 I just sticky taped my camera to my running cap to test out the Microsoft Hyperlapse software.
WordPress 4.4 added an improved system for dynamically adding page templates via plugins. To make this simple for you to implement yourselves, I’ve created this short example class.
People sometimes ask why I bought a pair of €300 headphones. The answer is very simple, noise cancelling.